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Why Agriculture Starts Around 12 Thousand Years Ago
12 thousand years ago marks the beginning of the holicene era, which is our current geological era. The climate fluctuated too frequently and there was not enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or in the soil to make dependable, productive agriculture possible. Most people who aren't familiar with irrelevant anthropology think that some genius invented agriculture because hunting and gathering was so precarious and unreliable. But it turns out that agricultural life is usually a big step downwards from hunting and gathering in terms of standard of living. And we've known this since the mid 19 sixties most recent hunter thers, for example, are familiar with agricultural techniques, but they choose not to engage in them unless they have to, because